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anthropological

US/æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/

anthropological adjective: relating to anthropology.

Adjective

anthropological (comparative more anthropological, superlative most anthropological)

  1. Relating to anthropology.
    • Much of the film is a detached, almost anthropological, look at the lives of the women and men, both white and of color, who live in the slums and housing projects outside of Paris.1986 August 23, Michael Bronski, “Note This!”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 6, page 15
    • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2017, page 162
    Synonyms:
    anthropologic

anthropological meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Tagalog

anthropological in Tamil

மனித இன ஆராய்ச்சிக்குரிய

anthropological in Bengali

নৃবিজ্ঞান সংক্রান্ত, নৃবৈজ্ঞানিক, মানবজাতিবিদ্যা বিষয়ক

anthropological in Tagalog

relating to anthropology
dalubtauhin

Examples of anthropological in a sentence

  • When she moves from anthropological classification to fantasy, her figures adapt, evolutionlike, to the tasks at hand.
  • This peculiar anthropological docetism, or pandemonism, is not compatible with the Christian faith.
  • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

All 14 example sentences with anthropological

Synonyms of anthropological

Forms of anthropological

comparativemore anthropological
superlativemost anthropological

Origin of anthropological

From anthropology + -ical.

Words formed from anthropological

Questions about anthropological

What does anthropological mean?
Anthropological means relating to anthropology.
What is anthropological in Tamil?
Anthropological in Tamil is மனித இன ஆராய்ச்சிக்குரிய. See Anthropological meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anthropological?
Anthropological is an adjective.
How do you pronounce anthropological?
Anthropological is pronounced /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/ (US).

Words near anthropological in the dictionary

  1. anthropolith
  2. anthropoliths
  3. anthropologian
  4. anthropologians
  5. anthropologic
  6. anthropological
  7. anthropologically
  8. anthropologies
  9. anthropologist
  10. anthropologists
  11. anthropology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anthropological (page history and authors); anthropological (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anthropological (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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